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Show Daily Herald Russia Faces a New Kind of Revolution Mil i Sears By EDWARD J. SHIELDS je'eetric-diesbuses and trucks. ( LTI &twt The Prize Union faces a new kind of The automobile is the glitter-linrevolution in the 1970s, prize of the 1970s for Soviet Fifty years after the Model T idtizen. changed the face of America Thev da not have to wnrrv and 20 years after Western about unemployment, sickness Eurjpe, the Sonet Union finally old age although the state or w shifting gears for the welfare payments are far from Automobile Age, standard. Thev are luxury The government of Premier with food, A'exei N. Kosygin is committed adequately provided and shelter. jclothing to producing more man lj million private cars a year by The 1970s will be a decade of of I OfJ el MOSCOW -The g i' J .demand, after half a century revolution, famine, war and American assembly lines forced industrialization, for a produce cse new car for every ilife above subsistence level, 25th U.S. citizen a year, ?ji In the last two years of the annual output of more than S Sixties the planners for the first million. Itime allowed consumer goods to But until now, the Soviets make slightly more of the hve been turning out a total up national nroduct than miniscuie 200,000 cars annually "heavy" industry which turns one for every 1.205 of its out machinery and capital citizens , and the favored few equipment are almost exclusively Commu- The Five-YePlan to be nist party leaders and announced in 1970 will undoubtop executives. tedly continue this trend. The Soviet leaders, faced Whether "light" industry can with inexorable pressure from live up to the challenge is below for more of me Better another question. the things of life, chose A recent householder survey automobile as their symbol of Ukraine showed in the populous masses. for the concern 1.8 of million wasn- production Ante City the next me machines in on They loosened the strings tvear meet would iusi expected hard curthe closely-guarde- d easterners but demand 720,000 rency reserves to persuade Fiat who want automatic models of Italy to build an entire auto will have to accept older, city with a capacity of 700,000 semiautomatic types. d Fiat 124s a year. Demsnd Is Great Renault af France was called The 1.5 million refrigerators In to rebuild the Moskvitch of to a Moscow meet only will near plant capacity of 300,000 cars a year. the estimated demand and Rntfc olanned models are 550,000 vacuum cleaners could about the size of the smallest be sold three times over. American compacts with comIn housing, between 1956)1 fortable seating for only four and 1968 the Soviet Union built well-buiRussians muffled up an impressive total of 24 in their winter furs. million aoartments. But some They will change the Soviet citizens still live in ray way of life, just as the basement rooms and many Volkswagen changed occupied have to share flats, although West Germany in the early they ao entitled to a minimum 1930s. square meters of Rving space Official thinking Is based on a room about It z 10 feet offering citizens a major item Moscow city authorities have of purely personal property promised bv 1973 any citizen worth working and saving for. who wants a telephone will be The perennial state exhorta- able to have one and Kussian tions for more efficient produ- citizens show all the early of ctionlinked with a promise of telephone addic symptoms higher wages will take on a Ition. tangible meaning to citizens On the darker side foi the deafened to pep rallies by citizen of the '70s, clothes are overexposure. likelv to remain dowdy and renewed a than more But far Good footwear is in Interest in work will be let expensive. short supply ana perenially loose a 30 to 50 roubles ($33-5costs Open Up Country of the pair. In the vast distances of all Is the Gloomiest Sovie'. Union, villges, towns and in services, which are cities have been relatively prospect and considered centuries. for isolated Private automobiles will open hence rank low with the their own country to Soviet economic planners. citizens not only for sightsee-in- 0 The number of retail outlets but for the exchange of i far 7oo low. resulting in experience, ideas and com- eternal (jueues. Sales personnel plaints on a purely private receive mimscuie salaries level, free of the hitherto-oervasiv- e reflect it in rude, disinterested and uninformed service. Small Party guidance. Demands will wow: For entrepreneurs who could supply expanding the Soviet Union's such services as launanes, ary 220.000 miles of ripaninff and reoair of house npcrliirihlo surfaced roads, for gas stations hold goods are not allowed now a smuch as 100 miles since they wouia represent apart for servicing stations "exploitation of labor. and spare parts and private garages which are almost nonexistent EXPENSES ESCULATE Planning has started on these Of everv dollar of gross farm problems. School children now in 1968, about 71 cents income must pass tests in traffic safety for went Town expenses ot producand basic driving theory. nlanners have ambitious tion. The total of nearly $36 ex schemes for throughways and billion for farm production cloverleafs. Scientists foresee penses last year, rose from $35 Z3 nuuon in air pollution dangers and are billion in 1967; 1957-5with experimenting J l h j; ' t 1971. 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Japanese Just Love Seaweed But Spurn Turnip Greens to their national specialties By LEON DANIEL there Is any You don't have to be an expert TOKYO (UPI on spaghetti to know that no better understanding for hope between Japan and the United Italian would recognize some ol States when the Japanese insist the clop that passes for it in that seaweed i edible, yet restaurants here. throw away turnip greens? 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